Variation and heritability of aristal morphology in a natural population of Drosophila mediopunctata

Hereditas

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-71

  Bitner Mathé, Blanche Christine ^a,b   Klaczko, Louis Bernard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DROSOPHILA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; TEMPERATURE;

DROSOPHILA MEDIOPUNCTATA;

EID: 0031981059     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1998.00067.x     Document Type: Article

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